This is lifted from the D and S last year -- the clock is near the market right?

"THE strange contraption which loads of people spotted on the roof of Darlington Covered Market in Memories 279 was an air raid siren.

It was probably a hangover from the Second World War, but it was maintained throughout the Cold War so that it was ready to sound the Four Minute Warning when Russia had launched a nuclear ballistic missile.

To anyone who lived through the Second World War, or the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, its wail must have been truly terrifying. Those lucky enough to have been among the peacetime generation probably regard it as the quirky noise at the end of Dad’s Army.

From 1957 to 1992, the sirens were under the control of the UK Warning and Monitoring Organisation, although much of the ground work was done by the volunteers of the Royal Observer Corps (ROC)."

Mr Singh said this " I'm not expecting to get back any of the money I've already put in, I'm prepared to write it off for the future of the club. I'm not hanging in to make any kind of financial gain in the short or long term - if someone was prepared to come in and take the club off my hands, I'd be more than willing to discuss it"